Pats and Geno's are traps. Cosmi's Deli is just 5 min walk away. The owner is a cool dude, ask him to tell you the story about his little league baseball t team/ his Ohio story. Trust me go to Cosmi's (1501 S 8th) get the seeded roll. . .You will thank me.

I've heard this as well, which is why I asked. My best friend moved from Columbus to Philly a year and a half ago, and he said he's learned those are horrible sandwiches. There are a lot of fantastic choices, but Pat's and Geno's are just the generic tourist spots.

It's true, I would rather get a steak from a vender than pats or geno's. Another good place is Max's, when I lived in North Philly I would go all the time. Not the best area but it's right off Broad St. so it's not too bad.

My roasted pork spot is John's in South Philly, in my opinion it's way better. Jim's is okay, but it is the best of the famous spots. Going to Jim you can create the "South Philly Taco" grab a giant slice from Lorenzo's across the street and wrap your Jim's steak in it. Worth a try, ONCE.

Yeah, I did that too. I was in town for business as well. I wanted to do a taste test. I was so ashamed of myself afterwards that I told my friends that I did the taste test but that I only ate half of each. Pats >>>>>> Ginos.

One thing I learned in college was, if you're ever feeling blocked up eat an entire hound dog's pizza. The amount of grease from that tasty body destroying goodness really helps lubricate the insides if you know what I am saying.

Am I the only one that actually prefers LilC's over Pizza Hut and Dominos? I get burnt out on the same thing over and over and there was a time I had a apartment next to PH and Dominos. Couple years later and just the smell of either would trigger my gag reflex and I would have to cover my face with my shirt.

If we're talking megacorporation pizza then Donato's is probably my favorite. However my favorite medium chain pizza is Cassano's from back home in Dayton. Good lord I could kill myself on that pizza...

LC sucks but its cheap and you get what you expect. You expect better from Pizza Hut but recently it far from delivers (hah!)

Domino's can actually underprice LC's and I still won't touch that crap!

Donato's, however proves that there is still a segment of the population who will live with price increases to keep the quality standards up. Pizza Hut went to crap to keep prices down and so did Domino's.

They have gotten smaller and the prices have skyrocketed every year for the past ten+ years. its that quality that remains constant though. If they maintain that, regardless of price increases, the masses will remain loyal. Its a unique product with a loyal fanbase. I used to disparage the price increases until I realized how all the fast food joints I used to frequent said fuck it with quality. Ever since the economy went to shit, the majority of fast food restaurants decided to appeal to the 99c menu crowd and they had to lower the standards to meet that price point. A few chains stayed the course and now I understand why and appreciate it.

One chain that raised prices AND (unfortunately) lost quality was BW-3's.

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. ~ Bruce Lee

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. ~ Bruce Lee

I worked at a Chipotle to help get through college. Hand to God, I witnessed a living breathing human being eat 5 burritos in one sitting. He ordered 6, and took the last one home with him so I'm left to assume it was a road snack. It has haunted me for years, watching him tear apart the soft tortilla flesh like a starved lion tears into a fallen gazelle. There's nothing graceful about it, yet you just can't look away.

I have no way to accurately say this without sounding cruel, so my apologies if I offend anyone. If the man put two tusks in his mouth and did LITERALLY nothing else, he would win every Halloween contest he entered as a walrus (or Jim Bollman)

My best friend when I lived in the dorms played for OSU Rugby. I went with him to a couple of meetings our freshmen year as he wanted me to join. I didn't, but I did get to watch a guy put down 2 burritos, 2 oranges and a banana in 35 minutes. I didn't quite know what the topic of the meeting was, I couldn't look away. Dude was about 5'9" 245 and from what I gathered, was not a man to be trifled with.

Oh man how I miss cassano's. That's truely the worst part of moving to Florida so many year's ago. I diet every time I plan a trip back to visit. I smash a small pizza and a 10' steak sandwich every day I'm there and wash it down with skyline and frisch big boy for dessert. Good news is we have a skyline here in Tampa that has been here for years that I found out about. Wish I could start a cassano's franchise here.

FindlayBuck, I'm a Flag Cityer myself. I have to say, I was not that impressed with the chicken sticks from Pollyeyes. Maybe I just got a bad batch, but they were extremely doughy and didn't seem to be all the way done.

Anyone remember Pizza Chef in Marion with their gi-freakin-gantic pizzas that were like the size of the table top? Ok maybe it just seemed huge cause I was like 8 the last time i had one before they closed.

In college I ate three barnyard busters from TJ's. The first two were because I was really hungry/inebriated. The third one was because a friend said he would pay for my bill if I ate a third. I ate the third one but it wasn't worth it in the end.

Thats the one thing i miss about Columbus when i moved here to Dayton is the Pizza. I have not found a could pizza place here yet and been here going on 5 years.

I sure the hell miss Minelli's pizza :( that was just the best pizza around that i had found. Use to love Shakey's over on hamilton rd back in the 70's plus Howdy's on 3 c highway all three of thos places knew how to make good pizza.

The there was possem hollow in Obetz made the best hoggie's pizza was ok but nothing to write home about.